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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 11:37:26AM +0800, lijiang wrote:
> BTW: Boris has mentioned the solution which adds the new descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED'.
> 
> Which solution do you prefer? Add the new I/O resource descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED'(patch v7)
> or exactly comparing a string(patch v6)?

The new I/O descriptor of course - the string comparison thing is
fragile and error-prone.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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